Rafael de Soto, one of the best pulp practitioners, once said, “If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, because I like you,’ that's fine art. If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, but it's a hundred bucks,’ that's commercial art.”
Originally published August 19, 2003
Generations of Music, Track 2: Taking a transformational journey with Hurray for the Riff Raff
February 28, 2022
From COVID to The Queen’s Gambit: How a New York institution has weathered our strange days
February 9, 2022
Fabulously, it’s a film full of old, or older, people who have vibrant, busy, capable lives, even if that means the final stroke
February 1, 2022
“It’s definitely pop, and I love pop. But I also am trying to challenge myself in terms of what that label might mean for the music I make.”
January 13, 2022
“The seething raw power cut through with delicate emotion mapped my internal workings pretty accurately.”
January 4, 2022
“The thought occurs that in each of the Age of Television's three great contests over the Constitution, the rogues' gallery has never really changed. Those are proud and patriotic Republicans sitting over there.”
Originally published January 20, 1987